The story begins in A.D. 30. The precise Latin of the Romans was heard everywhere; the land was a polyglot of warring peoples. It follows the life of Simon, called Peter and later St. Peter...who laid down his fishing nets on the Sea of Galilee to follow Jesus to Gethsemane. There, he would deny Him. Yet he became the greatest of the first Christian leaders and teachers. By the author of The Robe.
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Young Dick Shelton, caught in the midst of England's War of the Roses, finds his loyalties torn between the guardian who will ultimately betray him and the leader of a secret fellowship, The Black Arrow. As Shelton is drawn deeper into this conspiracy, he must distinguish friend from foe and confront war, shipwreck, revenge, murder and forbidden love, as England's crown threatens to topple around him. This is a complete and unabridged edition. -
Five centuries after Rameses, the temples of northern Egypt lie deserted, the gods forgotten. Injustice and corruption reign and the empire seems to be doomed to ruin. Only one man, a Nubian, ruling his kingdom from the South, rejects this destiny. Piankhy has only one desire: that the gods should once again dwell in a united Egypt. But in order for this dream to come true, this man of peace must confront the Libyan Tefnakt, the ambitious and authoritarian prince of the North who is determined to force the country to submit to his will. -
Book II of The Celtic Crusades. The Great Crusade is long over, or so Duncan, son of Murdo, believes until a long-lost uncle appears from the East bearing tales of immense treasure. Though the Iron Lance had been won for the emperor, an even holier relic has been found: the Black Rood - the prayer-worn, blood-stained remnant of the True Cross - now endangered by the greedy ambitions of ruthless crusader barons bent on carving kingdoms from the desert sands of the Middle East. When Duncan’s life is shattered by tragedy, he sets sail on his own pilgrimage to Jerusalem, following in the footsteps of his father. But the gates to the Holy Land are guarded by the warrior priests known as the Knights Templar. These fearsome guardians hold the key to more than just Duncan’s fate - the very destiny of the West is in their hands. -
Richard Dadier, a World War Two Veteran who has recently qualified as a secondary school teacher, now must spend a year teaching at a vocational school in New York. The boys at the school are rough, tough and basically illiterate and most of the teachers are just trying to survive their day job, referring to the school as the garbage can that keeps filth off the streets. Dadier can't accept his and initially wins the respect of his students, but loses it when he steps in to prevent the rape of a female teacher by a student. From that moment on...war is declared between Dadier and his students and it can only end with a showdown of the most brutal sort. This is not Goodbye Mr Chips or To Sir, With Love: this controversial story cracked down on the public school system and student violence. Dadier knows the students here will be tough, but nothing has prepared him for the savagery of the world he enters. -
The Blessing: Nancy Mitford
$15.00English Grace Allingham - good, beautiful and rather stupid - makes an impulsive marriage to Charles-Eduoard de Valhubert. When he comes back from the war and takes her home to Provence, her married life begins - as do her troubles! If the country life in France is complicated, then life in Paris is too much. The terrifying circle of intellectual aunts; the even more terrifying circle of worldly ones; Charles-Eduoard's dangerous old friends with whom he was raised and the even more dangerous attractive new ones who have come out since the war; the modern, earnest Americans; the bewilderingly foreign cuisine and the shockingly decadent manners and mores of the French...all seem equally foreign to Grace. Add to this the Machiavellian machinations of their small son 'Sigi' - the 'blessing' - and Nanny, who is also out of her depth - and you have a hilarious and satirical tale of love, fidelity and the English abroad. -
The title refers to the famous 'drop hole dunny' beloved of Australian historians and humourists. Set in the small Australian town of Bowley on an even smaller orchard, the block belongs to Bluey Jacks, his wife Flo, their two sons and Flo's Dad. Bluey is always ready to 'give it a go' - whether it's riding a bull, finding the right words to say to the local curate when he's just about to make the winning stroke in a cricket match, or helping out a mate in distress. There are plenty of escapades and local fun, not to mention Bluey's constant flow of money-making ideas and his entire family's unstinting support, even for the most absurd and unlikely schemes. Down-to-earth Aussie humour in the style of Steele Rudd's characters Dad and Dave. Illustrated by Rigby.
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Book V of Emperor (final book). Julius Caesar has been assassinated. A nation is in mourning. Revenge will be bloody. Rome’s great hero Julius Caesar has been brutally murdered by his most trusted allies. While these self-appointed Liberatores seek refuge in the senate, they have underestimated one man: Caesar’s adopted son Octavian, a man whose name will echo through history as Augustus Caesar. Uniting with his great rival Mark Antony, Octavian will stop at nothing to seek retribution from the traitors and avenge his father’s death. His greatest hatred is reserved for Brutus, Caesar’s childhood friend and greatest ally, now leader of the conspirators. As the people take to the streets of Rome, the Liberatores must face their fate. Some flee the city; others will not escape mob justice. Not a single one will die a natural death. And the reckoning will come for Brutus on the sweeping battlefield at Philippi. -
The Blood Star: Nicholas Guild
$110.00The sequel to The Assyrian. Tiglath Ashur is now in exile, banished by his brother Esarhaddon, the King of Assyria. With assassins close behind him, Tiglath flees first to the lands of the bloodthirsty Chaldeans, then to Egypt, a land ruled less by its pharaoh and more by court intrigue and pleasure-seeking. Here he finds love - and betrayal. Escaping to the port of Sidon, he is besieged by the armies he once led. Facing capture and death at the hands of the brother who now hates him, he slips through the trap set for him and ends his journey in Sicily where he wants to live a simple life. But an uneasy reconciliation takes him back t Assyria, where he must decide the fate of the empire.
